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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 926, 16 November 1881, Page 2

For years past Mr Renall has been boring the public with his engineering ignorance, On Monday bo crowned his past silly boastings by lecturing Mr King, the County Engineer. Now, on road and bridge questions Mr King is as well informed ns Mr Renal! is ill informed, and the idoa ot Mr Renall setting himself rip as his mentor, was a niece of unparallelled effrontery, The only person wo ever heard credit Mr Renall with possessing any tnechonici.il skill has been Mr Renall himself. He has been Chairman-of the Public Works Committee of the Boron;;!) for some three years, but what has ho done? When talking was tlje order of the day he was the loudest of any, but Then work was to lie done, why, Mr Jus, Russell and Mr Ganper had to do it, Would any sane man entrust tho construction of a- bridge, a house, or a miid to Mr Renall ? Everyhody knows that if suoh a work were left to him the chances would be that it wouM never be finished, and if it were by a miracle completed

thatit would-be dime'.vr;">iij>ly, Mr Kingi does; more wdt'k'an.n moiithl than Mr Itotmll probably lias tlbiio in 11 life time. Mrßenall is apt to.bVmst df vvhat ] he has accomplished in a piist generation; but.it is "very etiay for. him to romance on liia'deecla of-'ttronty or tiventy-fivp years ngn. ■ Scarcely anyone can or'i test-the value of statements referriii" tobo remote a period. The consequence is that he is a-sort of Baron Munchausen when he gets away from his last decade. Cannot Mr Renall find,one man-we ask for only, one,-who his known him for solne few yew, and who can get up and gay'iitie tenth of the good things which he says of himself I. Mr Renall has buttered himself over from head to foot, till he has become one niasa of self praise. We ■novor hoar anyone- else'praising him, but' that is because ho prefers taking this dopartment into his own bands, In 1878 Mr Renall declared at a public meeting that ho should be sorry to bo Mayor unless he could stamp his name on some work of public utility, He has now served twelve months' as Mayor, but where ia the work of utility on which he has stamped his name 1